Shot in an Alley: Visits of All Kinds

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--------- Corinthos Morgan Warehouse

Sonny had just finished going through the plan with his men. All seemed to trust it and they seemed like they were happy to do it. Of course, he had known that they would be. It meant the first steps of revenge for Jason and Carly. They would all give their lives for the two.

The only thing to work out now was how to get the Faith and Alcazar there. Sonny sighed as a knock came to his office door. "Come in."

Marco poked his head in the room. "Scott Baldwin to see you."

Sonny groaned. The district attorney was a corrupt fool. "Send him in. But keep a stun gun handy."

Marco smiled at his boss and truthfully replied, "Just say the word and I'd be more than happy to, Boss."

Marco stepped aside to let in an extremely cocky looking Baldwin. "Good Evening Corinthos."

"Scotty, what can I do for you?" Sonny was glad he had just put away what he had been working on and had taken out the books. It gave Baldwin less to harp about.

"You know, Morgan hasn't been by the station lately. Taggert and I are getting worried."

Sonny kept a straight face as he spoke. A few people were bound to notice Jason's absence sooner or later. He was mildly surprised that Emily hadn't come by to see if her brother was still in town or something. "I'm sure Jason will be touched by your concern."

"So Sonny. Where is your right hand now?" Scotty had taken the liberty of inviting himself to sit down. His arrogance was driving Sonny crazy.

"Why do you care about Jason?"

Scotty leaned forward to Sonny. "Because, Corinthos, I heard Emily Quartermaine mentioning to the Spencer kid that she hadn't seen her big brother lately. She was worried. Now, I ask myself why he wouldn't be visiting with her anymore? I mean, I may not like Morgan but he always seemed to be around for his sister."

Sonny silently cursed while he made a mental note to have Jason call her while he was awake sometime soon. "Did it ever occur to you that maybe he has been busy?"

Baldwin got a smirk on his face. "Well, yeah Taggert and I thought about that. But now I think maybe there's something going on. Do you want to know what I think happened to Morgan?"

Sonny laughed in spite of himself. This was going to be amusing. "Sure Scotty, why don't you tell me?"

"Be happy to. I think Morgan was getting too independent for you. I mean we all remember the break-up of the dream team over your lovely sister." Sonny suppressed a frown – he didn't particularly like thinking about what had happened because of Jason's relationship with Courtney, "What's to say that when you made up, Morgan was thinking with his own mind a bit more? Maybe you were afraid of Morgan taking over."

Sonny shook his head; he saw where this was going. He was nearly suffocating with the silent giggles. Jason and Elizabeth would get a kick out of this when he told them. "Where are you going with this Scotty?"

Scott lowered his voice to a whisper. "I think you had Jason Morgan killed."

Sonny couldn't hold it in any longer; he exploded with a much-needed laughing spasm. "Oh Baldwin, you really have sunken to new lows. I'm not even going to start today."

With that he got up and opened the door inviting Scotty to leave. The DA said nothing as he left the room. Sonny was still laughing as he headed to the parking lot.

--------- 15 Minutes Later - Corinthos Penthouse

Sonny opened the door to his penthouse. "Hey Jase, you wouldn't believe what Baldwin told me, he thi-" Sonny stopped in the middle of his sentence.

He had just realized two things were wrong. One Johnny was not at his post. Two, Jason was nowhere to be seen. Sonny panicked. A thousand things were running through his mind. Alcazar had heard what Sonny and his men were planning and had kidnapped Jason and Elizabeth. Or maybe Ric had figured out everything and had taken the two. "JASON? Johnny, you there? Elizabeth?"

No answer came to him. Sonny looked frantically around the room for something, anything.

There was a noise behind him. Sonny whipped around to see Elizabeth walking ahead of Jason and Johnny. The guard was half carrying Jason back to the couch while Jason was saying something. All three looked fine.

"Jason! Where were you? Are you okay?" Sonny rushed forward to his friend and looked him over. There was no blood seeping through the bandage. Jason was breathing fine. He looked just like he had when Sonny had left for work.

"Sonny, what's wrong?" Johnny asked him.

"Why is Jason out of bed?" Sonny had gone from scared for his friend to angry that he had been moved.

Jason looked at Sonny. He knew now what was wrong. Sonny had come home and seen that he was missing. "It's okay. I'm fine"

Johnny and Sonny both made there way with Jason to the couch. Once he was lying down Elizabeth covered him with the blankets.

Sonny still didn't understand why they had moved Jason. That is the reason he had gotten sick again. "Why was Jason out of bed?"

Elizabeth chose to let Jason answer as Johnny snuck back outside. "Um, I needed some help to get to the other room."

Sonny was now even more confused. Had someone come by and Jason needed to hide? "What?"

Jason just smiled slightly, "I had to pee."

Sonny just stood there. It was the logical explanation, but with all the threats to his family he had gone right past rational and into protectiveness.

Elizabeth was looking at him strangely, after a second she grabbed her purse from the floor by Jason and fished through it. Within seconds she handed him the remote to the panic room. "Here, go see Carly. You need it Sonny."

Sonny was amazed by the stupidity of that idea. What was he supposed to do, say Hi Ric, I'm here to see my wife… "What are you talking about? Ric co- "

Elizabeth cut him off. "Ric called me to tell me the case he has been working on is going to trial tomorrow. He is spending the night at a hotel in the town his client lives in. Go see her."

Sonny just continued to look at the two. Jason nodded his head to Sonny. "Go."

He looked at the remote again and turned to walk to the door. At the last second he turned back and looked at Jason. "Emily's worried. Its okay, you can tell her everything if you want."

He left. He was going to see his wife.

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Elizabeth watched the door close behind Sonny. She had seen the fear in his eyes when Jason hadn't been on the couch when he had come home.

She turned her attention back to Jason. "So, do you want to call Emily?" She hoped he said yes. She needed to talk to someone about all of this. Jason, Ric, her feelings for the two.

Jason seemed to hesitate, "She may have chemo today."

Elizabeth shook her head. She knew how much Emily's cancer was hurting him. "She would want to know you're okay."

She watched him bow his head in defeat. "Yeah, I want to call her."

"Great. Should I tell her to come here?"

"That'd be nice."

Elizabeth moved to the phone to call Emily.

--------- Lansing Home

Sonny opened the door to Ric's house. In his hand he had the remote control to the panic room. He stood in the center of the room for a minute then he clicked the button.

A wall with a painting on it slid away to show another room. No one came out of the room so Sonny walked towards it.

The room was small. On one wall there were monitors showing parts of the house. In the far corner there was a baby crib with the mobile that he had picked out for the baby. Then he saw Carly.

His wife was sleeping on a small army cot. He stomach had doubled in size since he had last seen her. Sonny moved to sit on the cot. He leaned over and began to stroke Carly's blonde hair.

After a few minutes Carly stirred in her sleep. Her eyes opened and blinked a few times before turning to look at him. Sonny saw her eyes soften and fill with tears.

"How did you get in here?"

Sonny smiled. "Elizabeth sent me, she said that Ric would be gone all night."

Carly nodded, "He is."

She still sat there staring at him, unable to say what she wanted. That she had missed him more than anything. How worried she had been that he would go to the dark place that she had saved him from so many times before. Unable to speak still, she leapt up and launched herself into his arms, holding on to him with a death grip.

Sonny wrapped his arms around his wife. Her whole body was pressed against him. He had the strangest thumping feeling against his stomach. It took him a minute to realize what it was. Carly's own stomach was pressed to his.

He was feeling his baby kick.

--------- Corinthos Penthouse

Emily knocked frantically on the door. Elizabeth had given her a brief run down of what had happened on the phone.

After a few seconds the door opened to show her best friend. Elizabeth gave Emily a hug before stepping inside to let her in.

"Jason?"

Her brother was on the couch. He was watching the whole time. "Hey Emily." He greeted softy.

Emily raced over to him and wrapped her arms around his neck, careful of the spot he had been shot. "God! I was so worried about you!"

Jason spoke into her hair. "I'm sorry."

Emily shook her head, "Ric should be sorry."

She finally broke away from her brother. She turned to Elizabeth who was sitting next to them. "Thank you so much for all of this Liz."

Elizabeth smiled. "Any time." Emily looked around the penthouse. "What are you looking for Em?"

Emily turned back to her brother. "Courtney isn't here is she?"

Jason shook his head, his eyes momentarily looked guilty. "No, she's on the island. She doesn't know about any of this."

Emily looked at the two. She wasn't surprised at all - in fact she was smiling. Her brother and best friend had finally figured it out. Emily herself had known what they refused to see for so long. She saw the way that their eyes looked when they had mentioned the other. She knew how protective Elizabeth had gotten when Jason had been shot before. She knew how protective he had become of her when he had gotten better. She knew how they trusted each other.

She had been waiting for them to figure it out. It seemed they had. They had finally realized that they loved each other.